Torah Binder (Italy)
Honorata Foa
1582/3
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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Creator Bio
Honorata Foa
Honorata Foa, the wife of Simon Foa, was a Jewish woman living in Italy in the seventeenth century who embroidered a Torah binder for a son or grandson.
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